The EU Commission has launched a consultation that may affect enforcement of rights across the Internet, and beyond….
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Slippery Slope
Does the ski resort have something to teach us about IT contract formation?…
The Open Source Software Licence: the UK Perspective on Jacobsen v Katzer
At the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Clive Thorne spoke on the US judgment in Jacobsen v Katzer and looked at how this case may have been decided if heard by the UK courts. This article from Clive Thorne and Nicole Mellors reflects that presentation….
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Data Protection and Applicable Law: Article 29 WP Opinion
The various European data protection authorities have come together to offer an Opinion clarifying the rules on applicable law…
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Data Sharing Code of Practice: SCL Response
The Society for Computers and Law Privacy and Data Protection Group has submitted a stimulating and constructive response to the ICO consultation on the data sharing code of practice…
SCL in 2011
Returning from the Christmas and New Year (and snowbound) exodus I felt a distinct sense of depression around the office, with everybody glued to their laptops and avoiding any superfluous conversation. Maybe too much Christmas pudding and brandy butter (for which my mother, sadly no longer with us, had the best recipe – she once…
Predictions – Late Extras
The predictions banquet has finished but some of the best moments at such events involve late lingering liqueurs. These late predictions, from Harry Small on e-mail, cloud computing and breach of contract and from Alastair Morrison on Microsoft and SaaS, are worth reading over your Drambuie before taking the cab home….
New Case: Repudiatory Breach of Software System Contract
The judgment in De Beers UK Ltd v Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd has been published and shows a sad tale of scope creep and competing claims to the right to repudiate. It also has interesting lessons on damages and quantum….
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CPD Online: December 2010 / January 2011 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the December 2010 / January 2011 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL5 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Back to Basics: Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
In the second in our Back to Basics series, Michael Taylor and Matthew Lavy consider the drafting and effects of two types of clause that are almost inevitable features of IT contracts: the exclusion clause and the limitation of liability clause….
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